Sunday, January 18, 2015

11:38 AM

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson argued today the U.S. should not be releasing prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, saying those still held there are the "worst of the worst" and will likely return to the fight.

The Defense Department announced Wednesday that five Yemeni terror suspects had been released from the prison.

"This is no time to be transferring these individuals who are all high risk now," Johnson, R-Oshkosh, said on "Fox News Sunday."

Johnson, chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, also criticized the president on the show for not showing the leadership needed to address threats from the Islamic State in Syria. Johnson said he shares the president's goal of defeating ISIS, but Obama needs to demonstrate how he plans to accomplish that goal.

“We need to define what he means by defeat. He needs to define a strategy for actually accomplishing that goal, and then he needs to come to Congress to ask for the authority to employ that strategy and accomplish that goal," Johnson said.